{"id":56962,"date":"2021-03-03T08:56:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T13:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56962"},"modified":"2021-03-03T09:43:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T14:43:56","slug":"the-climate-crisis-discriminates-maps-tell-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56962","title":{"rendered":"The Climate Crisis Discriminates. Maps Tell the Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Climate Crisis Discriminates. Maps Tell the Story<\/a><\/h3>\n

How data visualizers are helping to plan to support Cascadia\u2019s most vulnerable communities. Next in a series.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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UBC researcher Michael Brauer is mapping how everything from flooding to heat to smoke will harm some communities more than others in the province.\u00a0Photo via Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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[Editor\u2019s note: This is the latest in a year-long occasional series of articles produced by\u00a0InvestigateWest<\/a>\u00a0in partnership with The Tyee and other news organizations exploring what it will take to shift the Cascadia region to a zero-carbon economy, and is supported in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. ]<\/p>\n

When climate change triggers heatwaves, fire or flood in the Cascadia bioregion stretching from Oregon to British Columbia, some communities will be whacked worse than others \u2014 even just miles apart.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can have neighbourhoods right next to one another and one may be twice as bad off during a flood. Not because they\u2019re more flooded. But because their housing is worse,\u201d said Michael Brauer, a professor at the University of British Columbia\u2019s School of Population and Public Health.<\/p>\n

Maps commissioned as part of InvestigateWest\u2019s yearlong reporting project,\u00a0Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia<\/a>, span Washington and Oregon and provide digital windows into vulnerabilities that are likely to worsen with climate change. Montana-based\u00a0Headwaters Economics<\/a>\u00a0created the interactive visualizations using a pair of powerful mapping tools that the community planning firm launched last year.<\/p>\n

The maps created for this project are an example of tools that are seeing growing use in Cascadia, where equity advocates, academic researchers and governments are teaming up to create new data-driven methods to identify and address unequal environmental risks.<\/p>\n

At UBC, Brauer also has developed various maps projecting the climate crisis\u2019s uneven effects on communities, ranging from wildfire smoke to flooding and ozone concentrations.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n

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The Climate Crisis Discriminates. Maps Tell the Story How data visualizers are helping to plan to support Cascadia\u2019s most vulnerable communities. Next in a series. UBC researcher Michael Brauer is mapping how everything from flooding to heat to smoke will harm some communities more than others in the province.\u00a0Photo via Peter Wall Institute for Advanced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,1053,30823,5499],"class_list":["post-56962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-crisis","tag-peter-fairley","tag-the-tyee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56964,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56962\/revisions\/56964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}